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The tradition of a Super Bowl pre-game presidential interview will continue on Sunday, when NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt sits down with President Joe Biden. The interview will take place in Virginia, where the president is scheduled to be on Thursday. Portions will air on NBC Nightly News on Thursday, with…

Meghan Rafferty has been named executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” succeeding Jenn Suozzo. Rafferty has been interim executive producer since Suozzo’s departure in August. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim announced the appointment in a memo to NBC News staffers. Rafferty has been senior…

ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished the season on top in total viewers and the key demographic, but all the network evening newscasts saw their viewership drop in 2020-21 versus a year earlier. The newscast averaged 8.74 million total viewers, down 7% from 9.39 million a season earlier. NBC Nightly…

Jenn Suozzo is stepping down as executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Meghan Rafferty will step in as interim executive producer on Aug. 16, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim said in a note to staffers. “After 22 years with NBC I've decided to try a new adventure. I'm looking forward to announcing…

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt won key demographics during the two weeks of the network’s Olympics coverage, while World News Tonight with David Muir continued its streak atop total viewers. Last week, Nightly News drew 1.44 million viewers in the 25-54 demo, compared to 1.34 million for World News Tonight and…

NBC News unveiled its plans for coverage of the upcoming Olympics, with Today and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt planning to broadcast from Tokyo. Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, in Tokyo all this week for the show, will co-host the coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday morning along with NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico…

Eight of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault accusers are speaking out, telling NBC News that they felt thrown “under the bus” by a legal system that released the comedian from prison last week. “I was so stunned I couldn’t even think straight,” accuser Victoria Valentino says in the exclusive group interview with NBC News' Ka…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped ratings in the first quarter, but the period also showed viewership coming back down to Earth across all of the evening newscasts. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period…

A year after the start of the Covid-19 shutdowns, network evening news viewership fell to levels resembling pre-pandemic habits. Viewership for World News Tonight with David Muir, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell was down for the week of March 8 compared to the same period a…

ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again is closing out the year as the most viewed network evening newscast, but it comes after all of the traditional broadcasts saw an uptick amid the coronavirus crisis. World News Tonight averaged 9.61 million total viewers for the year, compared to 8.29 million for NBC Nightl…

After three weeks of stasis, Joe Biden's transition to the White House has suddenly taken off like the 1967 Chevy Corvette the President-elect has long proudly owned. In his first interview since being declared winner in the 2020 election and one day after the General Services Administrator finally signed off on the…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped all the networks in evening news viewership for the season that ended last week, and also won the key 25-54 and 18-49 demographic. The network said that it was the first time in 24 years that it had won in total viewers and the key demo categories. All of the…